Bibliograph

Jack Glass, a Golden Age story, Adam Roberts

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Jack Glass, a Golden Age story, Adam Roberts

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Jack Glass

Responsibility statement

Adam Roberts

Sub title

a Golden Age story

Summary

Jack Glass is the murderer - we know this from the start. Yet as this extraordinary novel tells the story of three murders, the reader will be surprised to find out who done it and how he did it. And, by the end of the book. our sympathies for the killer are fully engaged. Riffing on the tropes of crime fiction (the country house murder, the locked room mystery) and imbued with the feel of golden age SF, this is another bravura performance from Roberts. Whatever games he plays with the genre, whatever questions he asks of the reader, Roberts never loses sight of the need to entertain. This novel has some wonderfully gruesome moments, is built around three gripping HowDunnits, and comes with liberal doses of sly humor. Roberts invites us to have fun and tricks us into thinking about both crime and SF via a beautifully structured novel set in a society whose depiction challenges notions of crime, punishment, power, and freedom

Target audience

adult

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